SOUTH AFRICA: Rhoodie's Story

The National Party government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha is sitting
nervously atop a scandal that steadily grows worse and worse. Playing
the John Dean role, in this South African version of Watergate, is
Eschel Rhoodie, 45, the former Secretary of Pretoria's Department of
Information. Rhoodie, who is now living in self-imposed exile in Europe
and South America, was in charge of a multimillion-dollar slush fund
that his department used to secure favorable publicity for South
Africa's policies in both the foreign and domestic press. To accomplish
this end at home. Rhoodie has charged...